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HOUSTON (AP) -- Jurors will soon begin deliberating the fate of a Texas man who argues the state's version of a stand-your-ground law allowed him to fatally shoot a neighbor in 2010 after a confrontation about a loud party....

US critics have delivered a mixed response to the new, updated version of TV series Dallas, which has premiered more than 20 years after the original series ended.

Dr Shinya Yamanaka is the joint winner of major technology prize for his work on pluripotent stem cells

Technology Academy Finland has made Linus Torvalds the joint winner of the Millennium Technology Prize.

RUIDOSO, N.M. (AP) -- In the stables at a prominent quarter horse track in New Mexico, workers quietly nicknamed Jose Trevino Morales's stables as the "Zetas' stables" and say they often saw people show up with bags of cash to buy the horses....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A gunman who held a pharmacy owner hostage at his store in rural western Nebraska is dead after a 14-hour standoff, the Nebraska State Patrol said early Wednesday....

The administration calls its policy on illegal immigrants "prosecutorial discretion." In reality, it means deporting hard-working immigrants, says Ruben Navarrette

The owner of Habbo Hotel, a popular online game for children, has suspended all chat as it investigates paedophile claims.

Belfast Sound Map online project has echoes of the past

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Secretary of State Colin Powell says he's against any direct U.S. military involvement in violence-ravaged Syria....

The excuse for stopping the defendant was that the license plate looked counterfeit, but it was apparent that it was not, and the reason for the stop thus evaporated. There is no law prohibiting a driver from using the roads of this country with a Mexican driver’s license. The officer called for a tow truck without any reason, and then conducted a rummaging search that was a purported inventory. The government’s failure to raise standing until the suppression hearing was waiver of the issue because it prejudiced defendant’s ability to prove standing. United States v. Garcia-Medina, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 80620 (D. Utah June 8, 2012):

It is well-established that an inventory search may not be used as a ruse for a general search. Florida v. Wells, 495 U.S. 1, 4, 110 S. Ct. 1632, 109 L. Ed. 2d 1 (1990) ("Our view that standardized criteria or established routine must regulate the opening of containers found during inventory searches is based on the principle that an inventory search must not be a ruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence.") (internal citations omitted). ...

Here, Trooper Sheets did not write anything down. He was not methodical in his search. He was tapping and rummaging, looking for something hidden. He called for a drug-sniffing dog without any basis for suspecting that drugs were present. And he made that request almost immediately after he requested the tow truck, even though at that point in the stop he had not asked Mr. Garcia-Medina questions to dispel his concerns about the driver's license, Mr. Garcia-Medina's residency in Arizona, or anything else of substance. The court finds that the purported inventory search was a pretext for investigating criminal activity and so it violated Mr. Garcia-Medina's Fourth Amendment rights.

A priceless piece of American presidential history will go on sale next week in New York.

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused Democrats of "hypocrisy" for opposing the appointment of a special counsel to investigate recent national security leaks, saying they supported such independent investigations in the past when Republicans were in the White House.

Twenty-four hours of news photos: 13 June

Weeks after the U.S. Southern Command began investigating reports that 12 troops engaged in misconduct during President Obama's visit to Cartagena, Colombia, the entire matter is still being reviewed to see if the evidence is strong enough for the military to take disciplinary action against those alleged to have been involved.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- With signs shouting "No to repression!" and "Down with the PRI!" the angry students who have taken the streets of Mexico with flash protests have become the most visible face of youth in this election....

GENEVA (AP) -- Twenty-four years ago Aung San Suu Kyi left Europe for what was then a military-controlled nation called Burma. She returns Wednesday the icon of Myanmar's democracy movement to a continent eager to hear from her whether the country's recent reforms truly spell the end of its cruel dictatorship....

Rangers' liquidators insist that football will continue at Ibrox.

The Olympics opening ceremony will create a green and pleasant land. But is this rural idyll a realistic representation of the UK?